I agree and reading some comments from foreign Muslims and others on comments section from her press conference videos, made me very proud of the way she has conducted herself and presented us to the world.

As Frio pointed out they are quite dissimilar. Also if one actually looks at GDPs, instead of just spouting out bs retoric that you heard somewhere, you'd see that the scandinavian countries are not overly richer than nz. Finland has the same GDPpp as nz, both Sweden and Denmark have GPDpp similar to aus, and then there's the outlier Norway, which has not got it's wealth from anything other than it's proximity to oil. Also if you're going to try and dismiss their social and economic models as something to not garner any possible positive lessons from, simply because it's their geographic placement that's lead to their relative prosperity, I'm afraid you're going to have to explain to me why the Italian and Greek models have lead to them being such booming economic juggernauts considering their proximity to Western Europe. Actually an explanation on that for every European country outside of the biggest 6 or 7 of them. Pretty lame explanation for wealth if you ask me.

You're right that they are very much free market economies, by some measures a lot more than others. But they tax the shit out of everything to the point where one can question whether it's just indirect socialism.

I got my information from the OECD website. When it comes to GDP per capita Finland is 5K ahead of NZ, the rest are 10K+ ahead of NZ which isn't really the same at all, and that's before we even get into population.

For the 2nd paragraph. Free Market, so not socialist? Great that's what I've been saying (I'd agree with mixed economy).

As for Greece, funny you should mention that. I did a quick 10 minutes of reading and the gist that I got was that the country spent beyond it's means, and loaned itself up to the eyeballs, so bad economic management. Also turns out its a bit socialist, and not very free market.

I actually heard someone parodying him before I heard anything he said with his own mouth. I initially thought the parody was way over the top, and that no one really talks that way, let alone a politician who made leader of their party in part because he's supposed to be at least a little bit charismatic.